Philip J. Seddon, Pritpal S. Soorae, Frédéric Launay
Taxonomic bias has been documented in general science and conservation research publications. We examined whether taxonomic bias is similarly severe in actual conservation programmes as indicated by the focus of species reintroduction projects worldwide. We compiled a database of reintroduction proj...
Claude Gascon, Thomas M. Brooks, Topiltzin Contreras‐MacBeath, Nicolas Heard et al.
Humans depend on biodiversity in myriad ways, yet species are being rapidly lost due to human activities. The ecosystem services approach to conservation tries to establish the value that society derives from the natural world such that the true cost of proposed development actions becomes apparent ...
David A. Wiedenfeld, Allison C. Alberts, Ariadne Angulo, Elizabeth L. Bennett et al.
Some conservation prioritization methods are based on the assumption that conservation needs overwhelm current resources and not all species can be conserved; therefore, a conservation triage scheme (i.e., when the system is overwhelmed, species should be divided into three groups based on likelihoo...
Simon N. Stuart, Shaikha Al Dhaheri, Elizabeth L. Bennett, Duan Biggs et al.
Abstract A controversy at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress on the topic of closing domestic ivory markets (the 007, or so-called James Bond, motion) has given rise to a debate on IUCN's value proposition. A cross-section of authors who are engaged in IUCN but not employed by the organizatio...
Philip J. Seddon, Mark Stanley Price, Frédéric Launay, Mike Maunder et al.